The fracking song has made it's way across the Interwebs,
getting 80,000 views on YouTube already -- and it was posted less than two
weeks ago.

And this climate rap, which is, I might mention, NSFW, is
certainly more fun to watch than all 94 depressing minutes of An Inconvenient
Truth.

There's a fundamental difference between the two popularized
science music videos, though. The first was done by a journalist, and is
presumably intended for a wider audience of people who haven't yet made up their minds
about fracking -- and maybe haven't even heard of the practice.

The climate rap, on the other hand, while produced in part by the Australian
equivalent of National Public Radio, sounds more like a vent than an attempt to
teach.

And while I'm talking videos, I may as well just throw in another anti-fracking tune -- this one a folk ditty from a Canadian singer/songwriter.

I enjoy all these videos. But the first one is a truly innovative way to tell a relatively well-told story -- and may inspire even a tone-deaf writer like me to
pick up a tambourine and beat out some environmental tales of my own.